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Degree 8 and Genus 5 Curves in ℙ3 and The Horrocks-Mumford Bundle

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Algebraic Geometry and Singularities

Part of the book series: Progress in Mathematics ((PM,volume 134))

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We construct curves of degree 8 and genus 5 on a Kummer surface S (Proposition 1–6). We show that the exact sequence of normal bundles associated with a generic such curve splits (Theorem 3–4).

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González-Dorrego, M.R. (1996). Degree 8 and Genus 5 Curves in ℙ3 and The Horrocks-Mumford Bundle. In: López, A.C., Macarro, L.N. (eds) Algebraic Geometry and Singularities. Progress in Mathematics, vol 134. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-9020-5_16

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